Zerg Tricks Everyone Should Know! - Larvae Micro More Minerals - Zerg Trick #6

[metropolisisawesome]

look at the decal on his hatchery... that decal requires 1000 1v1 quick league wins as zerg. guess this guy really knows what he'l doing

[DensukeMifune21]

this tips are out dated, except for the larvae micro... but the rest of the tips i've seen are now patched...

[FoolyCoolyMabase]

Wow, this guy must get so much pussy, holy shit

[SuperMatthew345]

I thought that was cool :)

[josecarlosamador]

0:50 It's been a while I don't play SC2. I used to go terran, mass raven usually. I used to drop a seeker missile to kill the larvae. It would be epic to drop a SM on that pile of cocoons :D

[mapokid]

MY DICK IS GREEN WTF

[linenlines]

woah cool

[1219nan]

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[mattrocde]

@1219nan Boy

[TheGuyWithNoCookies]

@1219nan Girl ofc.

[staphinfection]

The only problem here is that your army is going to spawn in the mineral line, and when using Ultras, it can be a bit of a clusterfuck getting them out quickly. This trick might be slightly useful within the first few minutes of a game, but then it really doesn't matter after that once you have substantial worker counts.

[IvannLiang]

i am zerg master of wood league now

[JamesCFraser]

I love how the army hiding trick both blocks his gas and makes sure his army won't be useful.

Maybe I'm being overly picky, though. This player is clearly good enough to notice the ~0.25 seconds lost when his drone spawns two hexes further from his minerals - that's pretty gosu.

[TheAdmiralPancake]

I would laugh if you did that trick with your Zlings and a Terran did a Hellion run by...

Seriously, neither of these tricks seem useful. They're cool, but I can't imagine a use for them in a real game.

[PowerLord83]

That looked more like a glitch

[MaKage1993]

the mineral trick wouldnt be that effective

[NovemberAlphaTango]

I don't think that minerals "trick" would make an appreciable difference. I'd be interested to see someone do some analyses using the map editor on that though to prove me wrong.

[Comp1337e]

@NovemberAlphaTango Why don't you do the analysis yourself and not request others to waste their time for your own laziness and doubt?

[iloveariel98]

lol

[Car1ll]

Storm!!

[Supsup516]

Can you make one for TERRAN?

[Sprintspeed]

@Supsup516 why don't you just use the tricks to play zerg? your answer is the same as his.

[hemptime123]

@Supsup516 LOL

[Anviking13]

Well, it doesn't matter; it's so small margins. And you need two buildings, which means you can't do it very fast.

[Kuti210]

@TheStarcraft2Dude Was this trick patched?

[MegaDragonWizard]

and yes larva has 10 armor but hellions still roast them so fast... i almost think its not intended but they havnt fixed it yet so

[MegaDragonWizard]

nice trick but it stacks all ur larva in 1 spot and a hellion shot can roast all of em in the blink of an eye

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[TheCharlestonFollies]

ROFL at 0:40 the drone that pops out doesn't start mining for a looong time hahaha

[0omatthewo0]

stack up army trick:

1 colossus walk in

colossus : WTF IS THIS!? IT IS FKING X-mas!!?

[Fengg9]

@0omatthewo0 Uh... you do know that zerg eggs have about 10 armor right?

[gimplar]

@0omatthewo0 better would be 1 high templar with storm ready to cast :-)

[emikochan13]

@0omatthewo0 if you have a collossus in your base you have bigger problems, also they can be rallied into the nydus.

[isbilensinbil]

Awesome videos man:) Thumbed them all up. and subbed. Though I'm not a zerg player:P

[IceHarmony]

this is awsoem every time i watch it :)

[WW3seeker]

what if you spawn on location where ur mieral field is above or on the left side of your Hatchery?

[Disturbed763]

The first tip seemed kind of useless since although workers get their .3 seconds faster, any attacking units like zerglings have to travel that much farther. Second tip was weird... i kind of want to try it.

[soMeRandoM670]

@Disturbed763

i already treid it and awsome, hide ur tech units and how many u have :D

[IMadLarkin]

Genius... why didn't I think of this before? Silly me, always putting my pool behind my minerals...

[wifiaccount1]

these "tricks" are getting more absurd

[x3ICEx]

This trick alleviates most of the setback zergs get from positional imbalance between top and bottom placements. Spawn positions are still not balanced, even with this trick, but now the bottom zerg suffers less of a disadvantage. (top zerg: whose larvae spawn between the hatchery and mineral patches, bottom zerg: whose larvae spawn on the wrong side of the hatchery, far from the mineral patches)

[lockelytbane]

Blocking larvae spawn and path positions will limit your stockpile of larvae from excessive spawn larvae via queens. You can only have so many of them in front of hatch if it is blocked off. This is more important in late stage games

[WyrdCast]

Hell of a good thought on the larvae mineral trick.

[BaileysBeads]

Infested marines are also great for letting siege tanks harm each other or clear out banelings.

[Mifonerru]

I'm imagining a 200/200 ultra corruptor army hiding in an expansion. Then the opponent comes over and BOOM! instant gg... Yea thats not happening.

[TheBalefire]

@Mifonerru Yeah... it doesn't work with air units. Sorry.  >.>

[vtballa207]

u should do more commentaries... on your games and pro ones

[phendrome]

Subscribed. Keep them up.

[CrazyOneSC2]

There might be dimensions here that I dont get, byt why would I like to hide my army..? Why not use it to harass or maintain map control and map vision? Also, if my opponent comes into my base (with a drop or just marches in) and focus-fires down my nydus network before I either can kill off my evolution chamber or build a nydus worm - I'll lose my entire army. Also - chances are I wouldnt be able to spot the drop, because my army is in the nydus network. It seems very risky with little reward.

[CrazyOneSC2]

@CrazyOneSC2 Then again, you (The Starcraft2 Dude) do not claim it is a good trick - just a trick. So you got your bases covered. The first part of the video was educational though.

[TheBalefire]

@CrazyOneSC2 the nydus worm isn't what's hiding it. Eggs won't hatch if there is not enough space for units to get out, so the units were "hidden" because they were stuck in the eggs. It works with any building.

[greatgrahambini]

These are not "tricks", as they don't help you in any way. Building an evo chamber that early is completely worthless, and in no way would having larva be slightly closer to your minerals make up for wasting a drone and 75 minerals on an evo chamber. If you use standard evo timings, then your minerals are already saturated anyway, and the slight increase in income is completely nullified anyway.

[bygone44]

@greatgrahambini dont need to do it with an evo chamber? if ur going to open roach anyway, might as well do this. and its stupid to say a 'standard' evo timing, because I build 1 evo chamber well before im fully saturated.

[Zefryn]

@greatgrahambini then use a roach warren or a baneling nest instead... And they are things you, as a zerg player should know... whether you choose to use them effectively (for them to be tricks to help you) is up to you. Personnally, I prefer to hide my tech behind my mineral line, so I won't be using this anytime soon...

[levvy16]

lol at the drone bouncing around 4 different minerals before finally choosing one, i dont thin u got any boost there at all.

the hidden army is pretty cool though

[Soulen1986]

A zerg base should be open and not clustered so that new waves of lings can get a better surround in the event the protoss or terran ball get in close proximity to your mineral line. pulling of this trick will require great skill.

[Cnee4life]

wow now actually have a useful spot to put spawning pool and roach warren

[Messiahs]

questionable usefullness. I would rather a good simcity to prevent harrassment

[XCodes]

@Messiahs Zergs aren't good at sim city, and you should be FEing, anyway. This will be useful at your main, where you can prevent harass by blocking your choke with queens/lings/spines/etc. and then build your sim city at your natural, where you're actually going to get harassed.

[ViralSC2]

The second 'trick' is possibly the single most retarded thing I've ever fucking seen. I hope I play you and drop you, kill your spines and then laugh at you for the next few hours.

[TheBrunaland]

@ViralSC2 are you really that dumb, i mean seriously its a trick not a fucking master plan to get to GM.

[neozxa]

@TheBrunaland Would be hilarious if someone got to GM using this trick.

[sedwardpenton]

@TheBrunaland though there are many GM's who use locks to force spawn lots of units, but usually from an expo or a microhatch not their main

[waronndar]

@TheBrunaland So you say you can get to GM just by using a simple trick? Then your really stupid. Getting to GM is just as hard as walking over a 10 miles long way of burning ashe!

[Camaxtli94]

@waronndar he says : "it is a trick.

not a f*cking master plan to get to GM" mabye this clears it up for you

[TheBrunaland]

@waronndar No said it´s a "trick", NOT a plan to get to grandmaster.

By that i mean you don´t learn this trick and automatically get to grandmaster.

Jesus christ what is wrong with people -_-

[cbnunya]

@waronndar Get some glasses dude because you can't read shit.

[GefGZ]

@ViralSC2 Because Spinecrawlers are the only thing in the whole Zerg arsenal that can kill Evo chambers yes?

It's a situational tip, now if you weren't such an imbecile you would have realised that.

[ViralSC2]

@GefGZ Hahahahaa, situational? Situational if you're a fucking retard.

[WTFBBQ888]

Well the extra 5 minerals you get isnt worth the sim city. Also dont forget that now your units have a longer distance to run to get to the front.

[TamaNewb]

IF the mineral line is below you, then larva is already in the best possible location.

[gpowsang]

@TamaNewb thats the thing. believe that and the fact that terran add-ons are always to the right is one of the things I feel makes build placement hard (more for the terran then zerg.)

[pliskin100]

These are more "cool stuff you probably didn't know" rather than "things you SHOULD know."

[dessan18]

@pliskin100 "cool stuff you should know because you probably didn't know" XD

[patix1995]

@ViralSC2 Then it's really situational for you ;-)

[LieutenantMerks]

at high level of play, your sim city is way more important then the possibly 15 minerals you get in the start of the game.

[pyromancer102]

@LieutenantMerks

What he said. Although this is kinda interesting, having a sim city is more important. It protects your dronseys from stuff like early hellion harass, ling/ bling allins and all that stuff. Still kinda neat though.

[kroooassant]

i love those tricks it's funny, soem are usefull some aren't. Btw why don't you comment some of your games? You ll always find some zerg layers like me to watch them:)

[TheStarcraft2Dude]

@kroooassant Watch the Zerg Strategy Playlist on my channel. 25 videos there for you :)

[kroooassant]

@TheStarcraft2Dude yea i watched them all already haha

[Lackaaffee]

@kroooassant go HuskyStarcraft (channel)

[kroooassant]

@Lackaaffee why lol? Husky's for kids, he's a nice guy and all but i don't like him. Zai, xHydraX, CricketStarcraft, CommunityStarcraft and many more are much better than him. And if i want good commented games i go on gom.tv to watch the GSL.

[WorldandWarfare]

It will only be a small boost to the economy but it might be useful for early game rushing and the sort. And yes if you block in your eggs before they can hatch they will wait until they are unblocked. this is especially fun when you have 11 ultra's all waiting to be spawned until your enemy kills the buildings in the way.

[Parknutzz]

i dont understand the point  of the 2nd trick?

[guyonwabbit]

lol nice

[top1secret1guy]

not really usefull at all